Roles of ion and electron dynamics in the onset of magnetic reconnection due to current sheet instabilities

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 092114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toseo Moritaka ◽  
Ritoku Horiuchi
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Current Sheet ◽  
Electron Dynamics

scholarly journals Observations of Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection within a Solar Current Sheet

2018 ◽  
Vol 866 (1) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Cheng ◽  
Y. Li ◽  
L. F. Wan ◽  
M. D. Ding ◽  
P. F. Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Current Sheet

scholarly journals Numerical study of the reconnection process between magnetic cloud and heliospheric current sheet

2018 ◽  
Vol 619 ◽  
pp. A82
Author(s):  
Man Zhang ◽  
Yu Fen Zhou ◽  
Xue Shang Feng ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Ming Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Current Sheet ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Magnetic Cloud ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Heliospheric Current Sheet ◽  
Reconnection Process ◽  
Magnetic Filed

In this paper, we have used a three-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamics model to study the reconnection process between magnetic cloud and heliospheric current sheet. Within a steady-state heliospheric model that gives a reasonable large-scale structure of the solar wind near solar minimum, we injected a spherical plasmoid to mimic a magnetic cloud. When the magnetic cloud moves to the heliospheric current sheet, the dynamic process causes the current sheet to become gradually thinner and the magnetic reconnection begin. The numerical simulation can reproduce the basic characteristics of the magnetic reconnection, such as the correlated/anticorrelated signatures in V and B passing a reconnection exhaust. Depending on the initial magnetic helicity of the cloud, magnetic reconnection occurs at points along the boundary of the two systems where antiparallel field lines are forced together. We find the magnetic filed and velocity in the MC have a effect on the reconnection rate, and the magnitude of velocity can also effect the beginning time of reconnection. These results are helpful in understanding and identifying the dynamic process occurring between the magnetic cloud and the heliospheric current sheet.

scholarly journals Forced current sheet structure, formation and evolution: application to magnetic reconnection in the magnetosphere

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 2547-2553 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. I. Domrin ◽  
A. P. Kropotkin
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Current Sheet ◽  
Particle Interaction ◽  
Nonlinear Process ◽  
Ion Distribution ◽  
Wave Type ◽  
Ion Distributions ◽  
Sheet Structure ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Nonlinear Kinetic

Abstract. By means of a simulation model, the earlier predicted nonlinear kinetic structure, a Forced Kinetic Current Sheet (FKCS), with extremely anisotropic ion distributions, is shown to appear as a result of a fast nonlinear process of transition from a previously existing equilibrium. This occurs under triggering action of a weak MHD disturbance that is applied at the boundary of the simulation box. In the FKCS, current is carried by initially cold ions which are brought into the CS by convection from both sides, and accelerated inside the CS. The process then appears to be spontaneously self-sustained, as a MHD disturbance of a rarefaction wave type propagates over the background plasma outside the CS. Comparable to the Alfvénic discontinuity in MHD, transformation of electromagnetic energy into the energy of plasma flows occurs at the FKCS. But unlike the MHD case, ``free" energy is produced here: dissipation should occur later, through particle interaction with turbulent waves generated by unstable ion distribution being formed by the FKCS action. In this way, an effect of magnetic field ``annihilation" appears, required for fast magnetic reconnection. Application of the theory to observations at the magnetopause and in the magnetotail is considered.

scholarly journals Magnetically Driven Motions in Solar Corona

1980 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 487-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. V. Somov ◽  
S. I. Syrovatskii
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Solar Corona ◽  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Current Sheet ◽  
Magnetic Dipole ◽  
Plasma Flow ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
Plasma Velocity ◽  
Rapid Process

Solution of the nonlinear MHD problem of plasma flow in an increasing dipolar magnetic field is obtained in the approximation of a strong field. The distributions of plasma velocity, displacement, and density are calculated. The situation when the magnetic dipole is ‘increased’ by rapid process of magnetic reconnection or current sheet rupture is illustrated. Possible applications are discussed in connection with plasma ejections from chromosphere in corona.

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